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Use this directory to find nationally recognised data standards for use in health and adult social care.

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  • eDischarge summary

    The eDischarge Summary Standard enables hospitals to safely transfer standardised clinical information which can be extracted directly into GP IT systems, when a patient is discharged from hospital care

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Personalised Care and Support Plan

    A standard to allow the sharing of care plans between patients, carers and all the health and care professionals involved in that person's care. This is an updated version of the original Digital care and support plan, published in 2018 and now includes the elements for community mental health planning.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Core information standard

    The core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Clinical referral information

    A standard to improve the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants and other health care professionals providing outpatient services

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Community pharmacy

    The community pharmacy standard supports information sharing between community pharmacists and GP practices

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • About Me

    Part of a suite of social care standards, About Me information is the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Identity Verification and Authentication Standard for Digital Health and Care Services

    This standard provides for a consistent approach to identity management across digital health and care services, covering: verification, authentication and clinical authorisation

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021

  • National Workforce Data Set

    The National Workforce Data Set (NWD), which includes the NHS occupation codes, specifies the data standards to be used for NHS workforce information.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021

  • NHS Number

    This information standard sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, which is the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales. There is an overarching standard, supplemented by two use cases for how the standard should be used in general practice and secondary care

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021

  • SNOMED CT

    SNOMED CT is the information standard for clinical terminology; it is an international standard published by SNOMED International providing a global common language for health terms.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021